Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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